Within a fortnight of the dramatic rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners, the reality behind this much-heralded event is being stripped from the official hyperbole. Last week, one Chilean politician claimed that the workers had been refused permission to quit their...
India’s Supreme Court has stayed hearing of the case, leveled by environmental groups in Tamil Nadu, against Vedanta-Sterlite’s allegedly highly polluting Tuticorin copper smelter. Although The Hindu newspaper reports this as a “relief” for...
In another setback to Vedanta Aluminium’s Orissa ambitions, the Environment Ministry has rejected its plan to expand its Lanjigarh refinery six-fold and directed the State government to take legal action against the company for illegally beginning the expansion...
Orissa Minerals and Rio Tinto first signed a multi-billion dollar iron ore joint venture agreement in 1995 which never amounted to anything, now 15 years later they are trying again. See...
Über mining promoter Robert Friedland is circling the financial wagons, preparing to stave off a future takeover of Ivanhoe Mines and its Oyu Tolgoi project by mega-miner Rio Tinto. Robert Friedland clearly drew a line in the sand to prevent Rio Tinto from slowly...
LANDOWNERS of the Panguna copper mine, who went to war in 1988 over what they claimed then was utter disrespect and disregard for their existence and welfare, are claiming the same maltreatment as the National Government, the Autonomous Bougainville Government and...
